ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[Kangaderoo]

Also, what does 0=0A=10BABYA=36WOW mean?

0=0A=10BABYA=36WOW describes the alphabet the wow 51 character string was in : 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

You needed to know this to figure out what the index of each character was in order to make the shifting work.

Was there an alternate (more correct) path to the key? Maybe.  Someone did notice some files were uploaded after the puzzle started and that was suspicious.  So, perhaps you're right.  The path we took was layed out for us after a mistake was noticed.   Dunno.

excuse me? say what?
are you on drugs?
NO IT DOESNT
anything can be in that string simply because it has all the alphabet characters.
you didnt answer the question, you just avoided it.

Yes there is a REAL version.
Once again you can find it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=683366.0

PS: also, why is there a GATEway for darkwallet and a GATEkeeper just happens to have won?
hint hint, more to come soon....

PPS: i know you are reading this, so get this clear. you started something that you shouldnnt have.
you never intented to give the prize to this people. this was just for advertising yourself.
and guess what? spain is no longer good enough
and you are wanted back home arent you?

Hint from OP:
0 = 0A = 10BABYA = 36WOW

This was no hint from OP, it actually is the solution of the crop circle puzzle.

So let’s break that down:

0 is the starting point
0A, which means the starting point, then becomes a capital A, I took the first capital A
10BABYA – Count the next 10 characters and you find a “baby” A or a
36WOW – If you look at the tiles over it there all there: 3, 6, w, o, w

Yeah, this makes much more sense then seeing it as a description of a base 62 alphabet translation.
The 'real' solution you keep referring to is just as fragile in it assumptions and leaps.

It could have been a valid path, but I have to believe the real path to the correct solution is the one defined by the makers or the puzzle itself.
Sure the road was bumpy and bouncy and at times we were led by the hand, but it does not make their defined road wrong, just different that
the one you are promoting.

Since I mostly enjoyed the puzzle as was laid out by the OP, I welcome a new version, and take any mistakes for granted.

[judie.f]

Also, what does 0=0A=10BABYA=36WOW mean?

0=0A=10BABYA=36WOW describes the alphabet the wow 51 character string was in : 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

You needed to know this to figure out what the index of each character was in order to make the shifting work.

Was there an alternate (more correct) path to the key? Maybe.  Someone did notice some files were uploaded after the puzzle started and that was suspicious.  So, perhaps you're right.  The path we took was layed out for us after a mistake was noticed.   Dunno.

excuse me? say what?
are you on drugs?
NO IT DOESNT
anything can be in that string simply because it has all the alphabet characters.
you didnt answer the question, you just avoided it.

Yes there is a REAL version.
Once again you can find it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=683366.0

PS: also, why is there a GATEway for darkwallet and a GATEkeeper just happens to have won?
hint hint, more to come soon....

PPS: i know you are reading this, so get this clear. you started something that you shouldnnt have.
you never intented to give the prize to this people. this was just for advertising yourself.
and guess what? spain is no longer good enough
and you are wanted back home arent you?

Hint from OP:
0 = 0A = 10BABYA = 36WOW

This was no hint from OP, it actually is the solution of the crop circle puzzle.

So let’s break that down:

0 is the starting point
0A, which means the starting point, then becomes a capital A, I took the first capital A
10BABYA – Count the next 10 characters and you find a “baby” A or a
36WOW – If you look at the tiles over it there all there: 3, 6, w, o, w

Yeah, this makes much more sense then seeing it as a description of a base 62 alphabet translation.
The 'real' solution you keep referring to is just as fragile in it assumptions and leaps.

It could have been a valid path, but I have to believe the real path to the correct solution is the one defined by the makers or the puzzle itself.
Sure the road was bumpy and bouncy and at times we were led by the hand, but it does not make their defined road wrong, just different that
the one you are promoting.

Since I mostly enjoyed the puzzle as was laid out by the OP, I welcome a new version, and take any mistakes for granted.

Sorry to say so but you shouldnt be playing this games.

Leave it to the pros.....

and btw nobody seems to have answered what the marked area in the wow.jpg was.......

notice how there is a line going down on DECLIN. ??

[Kangaderoo]

Sorry to say so but you shouldnt be playing this games.

Leave it to the pros.....

and btw nobody seems to have answered what the marked area in the wow.jpg was.......

notice how there is a line going down on DECLIN. ??

I guess you are correct, I should not be playing the games. :-(
The image with the marked area used in the solution you are promoting has actually being made by me..... and its wrong.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.msg7669775#msg7669775
I did mention the line-up is not exact.....

There have been updates of this image where this overlay content was scaled correctly, no line is going down the Declination column there.....
I have to agree with you that this overlay has not been explained, there as also never been a hint that it was part of the puzzle either...
80% of the Dungeons of Daggorath source code has not been used, you need an explanation for that as well?

There has never been a real hint from the OP that the solution had to be a darkwallet. Sure with the picture as starting point it could have been an option.
That is what makes it a puzzle; pursue possibilities and eliminate impossibilities.
The title of this topic has been changing during the game but it always stated that we were searching for a private key, here it never mentioned a darkwallet seed.

[judie.f]

Sorry to say so but you shouldnt be playing this games.

Leave it to the pros.....

and btw nobody seems to have answered what the marked area in the wow.jpg was.......

notice how there is a line going down on DECLIN. ??

I guess you are correct, I should not be playing the games. :-(
The image with the marked area used in the solution you are promoting has actually being made by me..... and its wrong.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.msg7669775#msg7669775
I did mention the line-up is not exact.....

There have been updates of this image where this overlay content was scaled correctly, no line is going down the Declination column there.....
I have to agree with you that this overlay has not been explained, there as also never been a hint that it was part of the puzzle either...
80% of the Dungeons of Daggorath source code has not been used, you need an explanation for that as well?

There has never been a real hint from the OP that the solution had to be a darkwallet. Sure with the picture as starting point it could have been an option.
That is what makes it a puzzle; pursue possibilities and eliminate impossibilities.
The title of this topic has been changing during the game but it always stated that we were searching for a private key, here it never mentioned a darkwallet seed.

really?
so you posted something that was misleading?
so why does it make perfect sense?

There has never been a real hint from the OP that the solution had to be a darkwallet. Sure with the picture as starting point it could have been an option.

yet none of them seem to match the pattern do they?

lets get things clear, nothing has been explained by the game creators, yet, newbies like yourself seem to keep defending the game creators.

funny how most of you seem to disappear when asked serious questions like: arg sidekick: why are you using the same term as the coin artists - DM - instead of what everyone else is using - PM -?

that being said, what makes more sense to you?

that the game creators made a mistake or that there is a perfect version of the game outlined here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=683366.0

btw you seem to have joined only but a few days before this game yet have mostly been active on this post.
Why?


once again: why is there a GATEway for darkwallet and a GATEkeeper just happens to have won?

PS: Game over boys. no where to run anymore....

[judie.f]

also, someone plsease confirm our find...

the darkwallet has a bug and it allows anyone to gain full access of the darkwallet gateway.

this is just to make sure that we are right

so please do not do anything illegal otherwise we will be on your ass.
 

[shorena]

-snip-

Cant you see that S4VV4S and his sockpuppet is beyond reason? The riddle was over his head at the end, he resigned to posting videos with songs and cheers. I doubt he was ever hacked, might have been just instable internet, ISP having problems etc. IMHO he just could not stand the loss and is unable to understand the solution given severals tries by different people to explain. I dont think he is not smart enough, but rather to focused on his path and his solution that anything else can not be true. I know the riddle messed with our feelings, at least it did with mine. I disliked arg way longer then he/she deserved. The time and thoughts I put into this made me feel tired and empty from time to time.

Its like in the movie 23, if you look hard enough you will start seeing things.

I hope he will one day return from within the rabbithole and see clearly again, for he was a funny and friendly person.

If it makes you wonder OP, I do not think its your fault. Its not the riddle itself or the riddleress (? is there a female version of riddler? [1]) that breaks people but their mind/spirit that breaks on the challange. He will survive, he will heal and be stronger in the end. We just need to give him time to realize his foolishness.



[1] I did a quick search and found this http://dcfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Riddleress
ofc it woukd be an overly sexified version... anyway btt

[Kangaderoo]

So the fact that I'm a newbie make me unfit to have an opinion that differs from yours...?

I've played the game! Where possible I verified the find of others so to checked their conclusions.
I've backtracked often enough to check the current leads and the trail we were following was logical
with regards to the solved puzzles and hints and the way forward.

The only conclusion I can make (as newbie... so it doesn't count) is that this puzzle was not self sustaining, and needed too many
hint from the OP to keep the momentum going, but the solution as provided by gatekeeper has more merit than
the alternative solution you keep promoting. That one has more holes than Swiss cheese.... and less pony's....

[judie.f]

-snip-

Cant you see that S4VV4S and his sockpuppet is beyond reason? The riddle was over his head at the end, he resigned to posting videos with songs and cheers. I doubt he was ever hacked, might have been just instable internet, ISP having problems etc. IMHO he just could not stand the loss and is unable to understand the solution given severals tries by different people to explain. I dont think he is not smart enough, but rather to focused on his path and his solution that anything else can not be true. I know the riddle messed with our feelings, at least it did with mine. I disliked arg way longer then he/she deserved. The time and thoughts I put into this made me feel tired and empty from time to time.

Its like in the movie 23, if you look hard enough you will start seeing things.

I hope he will one day return from within the rabbithole and see clearly again, for he was a funny and friendly person.

If it makes you wonder OP, I do not think its your fault. Its not the riddle itself or the riddleress (? is there a female version of riddler? [1]) that breaks people but their mind/spirit that breaks on the challange. He will survive, he will heal and be stronger in the end. We just need to give him time to realize his foolishness.



[1] I did a quick search and found this http://dcfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Riddleress
ofc it woukd be an overly sexified version... anyway btt

Cant you see that S4VV4S and his sockpuppet is beyond reason?

NO they cant.
all they see is shills like you.

The riddle was over his head at the end

so why does his version make sense and NO mistakes involved?

he resigned to posting videos with songs and cheers

sorry what do you mean?
i am not stupified enough to understand you.

I doubt he was ever hacked

if you have the authority feel free to check the formal complains with both the police and his isp.
he is a police officer himself and a high rank one so he knows which steps to take in cases like this.
i am guessing somebody didnt know that before they attacked him.....
tough shit!

IMHO he just could not stand the loss and is unable to understand the solution given severals tries by different people to explain.

YOU (especially you) were all sleeping when he hit the pot.
so please restrain yourself when your are talking about your supperiors.
i am guessing that the germans learned nothing from history....
ask churchill, kennedy, stalin and others.
the greeks can be a real bitch sometimes i guess.
then again if it wasnt for the greeks we would all be speaking german right?
hint hint, learn when to shut up.

I dont think he is not smart enough

i wonder why you say that shill.....

I hope he will one day return from within the rabbithole and see clearly again

which rabbithole will that be?
the one that says that you are a shill and he has actually found the solution?

If it makes you wonder OP, I do not think its your fault. Its not the riddle itself or the riddleress (? is there a female version of riddler? [1]) that breaks people but their mind/spirit that breaks on the challange. He will survive, he will heal and be stronger in the end. We just need to give him time to realize his foolishness.

oh what a shill you are.
have you seen the evidence he has presented?
and if you have and have an IQ of more than 10, do you think the game creators made a mistake?

let me answer that for you. yes they did.

they fucked with the wrong person.

oh and btw stop playing your girly game.

ANSWER QUESTIONS POSED TO YOU.

shill
you are nothing but a shill.

PS: i will repeat myself. spain is no good anymore so game over boys. you are wanted back home.

[judie.f]

So the fact that I'm a newbie make me unfit to have an opinion that differs from yours...?

I've played the game! Where possible I verified the find of others so to checked their conclusions.
I've backtracked often enough to check the current leads and the trail we were following was logical
with regards to the solved puzzles and hints and the way forward.

The only conclusion I can make (as newbie... so it doesn't count) is that this puzzle was not self sustaining, and needed too many
hint from the OP to keep the momentum going, but the solution as provided by gatekeeper has more merit than
the alternative solution you keep promoting. That one has more holes than Swiss cheese.... and less pony's....

NO, it didnt need too many hints.
it just needed wits as it was proven so.

ask yourself, why no hints for days when the OP said no more clues?
because you had everything. you just didnt see it because you thought about it too technically.....

[Krona Rev]

once again: why is there a GATEway for darkwallet and a GATEkeeper just happens to have won?

And mathGATE kept pushing their crappy treasure hunt? It's a gate-spiracy! This is bigger than Watergate. It's gategate. All your gates are belong to us.

[judie.f]

once again: why is there a GATEway for darkwallet and a GATEkeeper just happens to have won?

And mathGATE kept pushing their crappy treasure hunt? It's a gate-spiracy! This is bigger than Watergate. It's gategate. All your gates are belong to us.

LOL 
i have to admit that this is funny.

still doesnt answer the question though.....

[alphabetacanary]

excuse me? say what?
are you on drugs?
NO IT DOESNT
anything can be in that string simply because it has all the alphabet characters.
you didnt answer the question, you just avoided it.

Your response is puzzling.  I directly answered your question and no I'm not on drugs.  The alphabet string can't be anything.  The alphabet is required to 1) know what shift value to assign each character of the shifting key and 2) what value to assign each character of the input string.  From there it is a bunch of addition operations modulo 62, and using that value as the index into the same alphabet to get the output.  You need some natural ordering of the characters in order to go from characters to numbers and then back to characters.  The 0=0A=10BABYA=36' clue was simply telling you the correct ordering to use. Get it now?  The clue has no other meaning than that. (And yes, I read the post. ) Glad I can help clear that up for you.

[Mitchell]

once again: why is there a GATEway for darkwallet and a GATEkeeper just happens to have won?

Oh no! Such a good proof that this whole puzzle is a scam and totally rigged. I have put judie.f on my ignore list because all the comments he/she made seem to be either idiotic or just really annoying. I highly recommend everyone else to do the same.

[newuser01]

"This has clearly become a game of bruteforcing your way to the next step..."

anyway, I'm out and good luck to you guys

told ya

[judie.f]

excuse me? say what?
are you on drugs?
NO IT DOESNT
anything can be in that string simply because it has all the alphabet characters.
you didnt answer the question, you just avoided it.

Your response is puzzling.  I directly answered your question and no I'm not on drugs.  The alphabet string can't be anything.  The alphabet is required to 1) know what shift value to assign each character of the shifting key and 2) what value to assign each character of the input string.  From there it is a bunch of addition operations modulo 62, and using that value as the index into the same alphabet to get the output.  You need some natural ordering of the characters in order to go from characters to numbers and then back to characters.  The 0=0A=10BABYA=36' clue was simply telling you the correct ordering to use. Get it now?  The clue has no other meaning than that. (And yes, I read the post. ) Glad I can help clear that up for you.

thats funny. i though you had to shift by: 6EQUJ5 = (decoded) = 6,14,26,30,19,5

btw you seem to have stripped the hint yourself.
what happent to WOW after 36?

also, nice trust level you have there........
what does: Warning: Trade with extreme caution!   mean?
sorry i am new to this forums and i dont know.

[judie.f]

once again: why is there a GATEway for darkwallet and a GATEkeeper just happens to have won?

Oh no! Such a good proof that this whole puzzle is a scam and totally rigged. I have put judie.f on my ignore list because all the comments he/she made seem to be either idiotic or just really annoying. I highly recommend everyone else to do the same.

i doubt that anyone truly cares what you do or not.
and haveing me on iggnore will not make me go away

and yes the evidence that this was a scam is rock solid.

once again
SOMEBODY FUCKING EXPLAIN THIS:

https://i.imgur.com/0fYE4qe.jpg

[judie.f]

"This has clearly become a game of bruteforcing your way to the next step..."

anyway, I'm out and good luck to you guys

told ya

indeed you did.
you were correct.

none the less the user S4VV4S has warned greeks that this was setup.
check his posts on this thread and you will see i am right.
use google translate

[arg-sidekick]

This is not acceptable.

https://i.imgur.com/ZX2ROlr.png

Please post your thoughts into one single reply. Thanks.

EDIT: Sorry for the retina sized image. I forget that I'm running @2x sometimes.

[sapta]

This is not acceptable.



Please post your thoughts into one single reply. Thanks.

EDIT: Sorry for the retina sized image. I forget that I'm running @2x sometimes.

He/she wants this thread to be on top?

[itod]